The product of a collaboration between Tate and the Fondation
Giacometti in Paris, the exhibition is, as its publicity claims, the first retrospective for 20 years.
Picasso's Women Of Algiers (Version O) and
Giacometti's life-size Pointing Man were among dozens of masterpieces from the 20th century Christie's offered in a sale in New York titled Looking Forward To The Past.
Picasso's Women Of Algiers (Version O) and
Giacometti's lifesize Pointing Man were among dozens of masterpieces from the 20th century that Christie's offered in a sale titled Looking Forward To The Past.
Giacometti's ''Pointing Man,'' meanwhile, could set an auction record for a sculpture if bidding soars to an expected $130 million.
An approach that "A Disagreeable Object" invites, then, is to read the work through
Giacometti's articulation of various Surrealist tropes.
of Birmingham, UK) examines the way French writers of poesie critique (not a sub-genre of art history or poetic writing, she notes, "poesie critique has been essential to the poetic practice of many twentieth-century writers") responded to the work of Swiss visual artist Alberto
Giacometti (1901-1966).
There was none of the drama of last February, when Sotheby's sold a
Giacometti statue for a new world record auction price, but art sales this month in London banished immediate concerns about a boom-and-bust cycle.
A life-sized bronze sculpture, made by Swiss artist, Alberto
Giacometti (1901-1966) has broken the record to become the most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction.
One of the other big ticket items, Alberto
Giacometti's sculpture "Walking Man," is one of the iconographic art works of the 20 th century.
How much did a life-size bronze sculpture by Alberto
Giacometti sell for at auction?
An anonymous phone bidder took just eight minutes to seal the deal on L'Homme Qui Marche (Walking Man 1) by Swiss artist Alberto
Giacometti.
